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A Puma helicopter from 84 Squadron based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, hovers over the Mediterranean Sea during a training exercise in June 2021
CYPRIOT communist party Akel called today on the island’s government to come clean over the use of British RAF bases on its territory to supply Israel’s bloody Gaza war.
The party, which is the main opposition party in the Republic of Cyprus, noted that the British government is refusing to answer questions from MPs on the use of RAF Akrotiri by the US Air Force. British site Declassified says the airfield has facilitated more than 30 military transport flights to Tel Aviv since the beginning of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
“There are increasing press reports that British and American aircraft are using British bases on our island to send arms to Israel, which has been committing ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people on the Gaza Strip for two months now,” the party said.
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA
While David Lammy makes hollow criticisms, RAF Akrotiri conducts five-hour surveillance flights sending targeting data to Israel, reports ALFIE HOWIS